Insect-powder container and dispenser package



Nov. 17, 1.942. E. T. AHERN INSECT-POWDER CONTAINER AND DISPENSER PACKAGE Filed Nov. 5, 1941 EDWARD TAHEHN- {mm/fir. I

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Patented Nov. 17, 1942 E I E INSECT-POWDER CONTAINER AND I I DISPENSER PACKAGE Edward T. Ahern, New Haven, Conn. Application November 5, 1941, Serial No. 417,968

4 Claims.

This invention relatesto a combined insectpowder container and dispenser package having a discharge opening provided with a spout and especially to such a combination of which the container is made of paper and adapted as a no-refill package.

The objects of the invention are to provide a combination of paper package and dispensing means of cheap and simple construction so that the container may be sold supplied with a powder content which, when exhausted by use, is not adapted to be refilled, the entire device being discarded and replaced by another like device with a filled container; to provide the container with such means as will prevent a refill thereof; to provide the discharge opening of the container with a removable spout adapted to direct discharged powder to and within difiicnlt and remote places where, without the spout, the discharge opening would be inadequate to reach; to provide one extremity of the spout with a twoway connecting means for insertion for a friction-fit within the discharge opening to either extend the outlet of discharge or to store the spout within the container; to provide the free end of the spout with a removable conical funnel attachment having permanently carried within its passage a screen or other obstruction adapted to break-up caked powder before it is dispensed therethrough; to provide the conical funnel with means for its direct connection with the discharge opening of the container as well as with the free end of the spout; and to provide for a friction-fit within the connecting means carried by the spout a portable tubular member with a screen or other obstruction permanently carried within its passage and adapted to break-up caked powder before it is permitted to pass through the spout.

With reference to the accompanying drawing, the Figure l is a perspective view of the entire device with an extended telescopic container with a broken wall disclosing an interior locking means, and the spout being broken for space economy; the Figure 2 is a perspective view of the closed container; the Figure 3 is a perspective view of a fragmenet of the ,spout and its connecting means with an inserted powder-breaking memher; the Figure 4 is anenlargeol bottom view of the powder-breaking member; the Figure 5 is a top view of the conical funnel; the Figure 6 is a perspective view of the entire device with parts and attachments in relative positions for shipment or storage; the Figure 7 is a perspective view of a slight modification relative to the spout of the parts i and 2 is and its connecting means with thedischarge opening of the container, both telescoped parts of the container being shown with broken walls disclosing the connecting means carried by the inner end of the spout; and. the Figure 8 is a detail illustrating the funnel attached directly to the discharge opening of the container.

With more particular reference to the accompanying drawing, in which similar numerals refer to similar parts, the invention is specified as follows: While any paper container intended for a no-fill package and provided with an air expelling means capable of discharging the powder content thereof may be provided with the improvement about to be explained, a cylindricali two-part paper container having a telescopic association is. shown as one form of container the body of which comprises the parts I and 2 of a well knownv structure. The parts I and 2 have the closed. ends 3 and 4, respectively, and the relatively telescoped open ends 5 and 6 enable a substantial relative axial movement, one part over the other, from the position of Figure ltothat of the Figure'2. The axial movement limited by means of a spring means 2A, one end of which is secured to. the inner face of the closed end 4 of the container part 2, and the opposite end of which is formed as a catch-hook 2C for locking engagement with an internal metal flange IA, with which the open end 5 of the container part I is provided. The parts I and 2 are telescopically assembled after having been filled with a powder content. The closed end 3 of container part I is provided with a discharge opening 3A reinforced by a metal ferrule l. The spout 8 is of tubular formation and is provided permanently at one end with a coupling 8A adapted at both of its ends for a friction tight fit within the ferrule 1, as illustrated respectively in full line by the Figure l, in one position, and trated in dotted line, in the other position, by the Figure 6. The conical funnel attachment 9 is provided at its base with the collar 9A adapted to fit friction tight over the free end of the spout 8 or within the discharge opening 3A of the container part I. Within the funnel passage and adjacent the collar 9A is permanently provided a screen or other obstruction ill adapted to breakup, caked powder before it is permitted to enter the funnel, the obstruction Ill being shown in the Figure 5. A portable tubular powder-breaking attachment II is also provided for a friction tight insertion within the spout coupling 8A, this attachment being provided within its paswithin the ferrule 1 so that its substantial length 1 is enclosed within the container as illustrated by dotted lines, and the inverted conical funnel 9 resting upon the outer face of the closed end 3 of the container part I, the open face ofthe-funnel 9 providing a housing for the slightly projecting coupling 8A of the spout 8.

In preparing the package for sale, the parts I and 2' being separated, the powder content is placed within the container part 2 and the parts i and 2 telescoped, the part 2 over the part I, and, as the parts I and 2 are being relatively contracted, the internal flange IA of the part I engages and forces the catch-hook 2C inwardly which, as the flange IA passes it, snaps back and becomes engaged over the flange IA to limit the relative extension of the parts I and 2 and thus thereafter prevents separation of the parts so that the container cannot again be readily refilled. While the means illustrated is shown as one way in which the package is prevented from being used for a refill, the applicant does not confine his invention to such shown means, but intends to include such other means as may produce the same purpose.

In use, the funnel 9 is removed from its upside- 2 down position relative to the closed end 3 of the container part I, illustrated by the Figure 6, and the projecting coupling 8A, there shown in dotted lines, is manually grasped and the spout 8 thereby withdrawn from within the container parts I and 2. The spout is then reversed and the coupling end is inserted within the ferrule I of the discharge opening 3A in friction tight engagement therewith so that the spout 8 thereby extends the discharge outlet, as illustrated in the Figure 1. If desired, the portable tubular powder-breaking member I I may be inserted within the coupling 8A before the coupling 8A is attached to the ferrule I. Thus assembled for use, the device is adapted to force the content of the container package through the powderbreaking member II and from thence into the conical funnel-shaped member 9 which divergently directs the broken powder upon objects where insects in their remote hiding and breeding spots could not easily be otherwise reached for a thorough application of the insect powder. The petitioner is aware that removable spouts are used in connection with permanent metal containers and spray guns, but, so far as the petitioner knows, no spout, before the improvement herein disclosed, has ever been used in connection with a paper no-refill package, and no spout having a reversible connection with an already provided discharge opening of the container has ever existed before this invention.

For use in spraying plants, their leaves and flowers, to rid the plants of insects thereon, the conical funnel 9 may be either attached to the otherwise free extremity of the spout 8 or directly to the discharge opening 3A Within the ferrule I, without using the spout while the funnel 9 is thus being used. When the spout 8 is being used with the funnel 9 attachment, the portable tubular powder-breaking attachment II would probably not be needed.

The Figure 7 illustrates a. slight modification in that the spout 81: when not in use is confined within the container subject only to be pulled outwardly through the open end 511:, where a free end normally projects therefor, until the exteriorly threaded coupling 85cm, fixedly carried by the inner extremity of the spout 81:, engages the internally threaded ferrule I at Ir, where, upon rotating the extended spout 8x, a threaded connection may be had betweeen the coupling 8x0: and the ferrule I, thus supporting the spout 8a:

'in an extended manner somewhat similar to that shown in the Figure 1. To the free end of the extended spout Bar, of course, may be attached the conical funnel member 9, if desired, in the identical manner as in the preferred form. Also, the modified form of the improvement is subject to the same compact position of parts and attachments for shipment or storage as that of the other form illustrated by the Figure 6.

I claim:

1. A container for powder comprising a chamher having a lower closed end and an open upper end; a member having a shape in cross-section corresponding to the shape of the chamber and positioned in telescoping sliding relation to said chamber and open at its opposite ends, a perforated cap at the upper end of said member; a. tube slightly longer than the chamber and member in completely collapsed position; a funnel having the smaller end thereof adapted for a coupling relation with one end of the tube and its other end of a shape substantially corresponding to the cross-sectional shape of the cap; whereby in operative position the funnel may be attached at its smaller end to the tube, and in its inoperative position the tube may constitute a closure for the container and member and have one end thereof covered by the funnel positioned upon the end of the container.

2. A powder container comprising a tubular member, a cap therefor, means associated with the tubular member to form a container therewith, said means having a closed end, said cap being apertured, and means slidably extending through the aperture and adapted in one position thereof to contact the closed end of the first means and in another position thereof to be spaced therefrom.

3. A powder container including a tubular member, a perforated cap at one end thereof, a closure at the opposite end of the tubular member, and a tube of greater length than the cap and closure and slidably positioned in the aperture; said closure being adapted in one position thereof to form a space between the bottom of the tube and the closure and in another position thereof to contact the tube.

4. A powder container comprising a tubular member, means associated with the tubular member to form a container therewith, said means having capped ends, one of said ends being closed, a tube, means provided by one of said ends to slidably hold the tube within the tubular member, the tube while so slidably held being adapted to be positioned to contact, or to be positioned spaced from, a closed end.

EDWARD T. AHERN. 

